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Our center brings physicists, chemists and engineers together with biologists and clinicians to perform functional and structural imaging in the adult and developing lung. Learn more about who we are.
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Ashley Borden
Clinical Research Coordinator III, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
ashley.borden@cchmc.org
Carrie Stevens
Senior Clinical Research Coordinator, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
carrie.stevens@cchmc.org
Kelly Thornton
Manager, Clinical Research, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
kelly.thornton@cchmc.org
Faculty
Robert J. Fleck, MD
Associate Professor,
UC Department of Radiology
Email
robert.fleck@cchmc.org
Theresa W. Guilbert, MD, MS
Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
theresa.guilbert@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Early life risk factors, exposures, and environment interactions; early childhood asthma; recurrent wheezing; clinical electronic medical data
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Visit the Guilbert Lab
Md Monir Hossain, MSc, PhD
Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
md.hossain@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Spatial-temporal disease cluster modeling; hidden Markov mixture models; inter- and intra-rater reliability; survival function for informative...
Paul S. Kingma, MD, PhD
Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
paul.kingma@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Innate immune systems; surfactant protein D; Neonatal lung growth; genetic basis of congenital malformations
Anne-Karina Theresia Perl, MS, PhD
Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
anne.perl@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Lung development and regeneration; fibroblast function in development, regeneration and fibrosis
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Visit the Perl Lab
Christopher Towe, MD
Associate Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
christopher.towe@cchmc.org
Bruce C. Trapnell, MS, MD
Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
bruce.trapnell@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Alveolar macrophage function; molecular techniques using gene knockout, transgenic and conditional gene expression mouse models and non-human...
Primary Investigators
Zackary I. Cleveland, PhD
Associate Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
zackary.cleveland@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Hyperpolarized gases; pulmonary imaging; translational studies; preclinical MRI
Paul Critser, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
paul.critser@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Pulmonary hypertension; bronchopulmonary dysplasia; pediatric cardiology
Nara S. Higano, PhD
Instructor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
nara.higano@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Pediatric and neonatal pulmonary medicine; cardiorespiratory MRI
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Visit the Higano Lab
Erik B. Hysinger, MD, MS
Associate Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
erik.hysinger@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Aerodigestives disorders; tracheomalacia
Laura L. Walkup, PhD
Associate Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
laura.walkup@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Pulmonary MRI; hyperpolarized gas; translational studies; rare-lung diseases
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Matthew Willmering, PhD
Assistant Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
matthew.willmering@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Magnetic resonance imaging; hyperpolarized gas; cardiopulmonary; image reconstruction and analysis
Jason C. Woods, PhD
Professor,
UC Department of Pediatrics
Email
jason.woods@cchmc.org
Research Interests
Hyperpolarized gas; pulmonary MRI; translational studies; image-guided pulmonary interventions
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Visit the Woods Lab
Project Managers
Zack Downing
Senior Project Management Specialist, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
zachary.downing@cchmc.org
Research Fellows and Associates
Abdullah Bdaiwi, PhD
Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
abdullah.bdaiwi@cchmc.org
William Garrison, PhD
Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
william.garrison@cchmc.org
Chamindu Gunatilaka, PhD
Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
chamindu.gunatilaka@cchmc.org
Riaz Hussain, PhD
Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
riaz.hussain@cchmc.org
Benjamin Chad Lyman, DO
Pulmonary Fellow, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Email
benjamin.lyman@cchmc.org
Alex Matheson, PhD
Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
alexander.matheson@cchmc.org
Carter McMaster
Research Assistant III, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
carter.mcmaster@cchmc.org
Samal Munidasa, PhD
Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
samal.munidasa@cchmc.org
Juan Parra-Robles, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
juan.parrarobles@cchmc.org
Shipra Rai, MD, MPH
Pulmonary Fellow, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Email
shipra.rai@cchmc.org
David Roach, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
david.roach@cchmc.org
Megan Schmitt
Research Nurse II, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
megan.schmitt@cchmc.org
Qiwei Xiao, PhD
Research Fellow, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
qiwei.xiao@cchmc.org
Students
Mariah Costa
Graduate Student, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
mariah.costa@cchmc.org
Xavier Hoyos
PhD Student, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
franciscoxavier.hoyoscordon@cchmc.org
Bilal Ismail
PhD Student, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
bilal.ismail@cchmc.org
Stephanie Soderlund
MSTP Student, Department of Pulmonary Medicine within the Center for Pulmonary Imaging Research
Email
stephanie.soderlund@cchmc.org
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